WORLD MUSIC (http://josephtawadros.com) 9/10 Does knowing that one person plays 52 instruments on an album skew the way one hears the music? It shouldn’t, but it can. Oud maestro Joseph Tawadros here plays a plethora of strings, woodwinds, brass, keyboards and percussion, while his brother James incorporates a further 11…
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LIVE AT FOUNDRY 616 (www.stevefitzmaurice.com.au) 7/10 Tribute bands usually cause me adverse health reactions, like running screaming from the room or sitting endlessly asking “Why?” Somehow Mingus Amongst Us leaves me hale and hearty. Perhaps it is that baritone saxophonist Steve Fitzmaurice’s primary concern with the project seems to be…
THE GLOAMING 2 (Real World/Planet) 10/10 No one damages a tradition more than a conservative, whose dry immutability makes it crack and ultimately crumble. Keeping a tradition alive actually requires the moisturizing effect of change. Not that the members of the Gloaming are realising their quiet revolution in Irish traditional…